Tribal leaders are considering a proposal to ban smoking in North Dakota’s Indian casinos, but one tribal chairman said the odds of it happening are slim. Pushing the idea is the Intertribal Tobacco Use Coalition, comprised of tribal tobacco prevention s

A resolution calling for a study of the theory that it could be useful to use non-traditional forms of tobacco to get people off cigarettes was killed Thursday after taking a long and circuitous route through the Legislature. The so-called harms reductio

In a first for the area, five Dickinson businesses found to be selling tobacco out of compliance with state laws had to tell their tobacco-purchasing customers to go somewhere else on Saturday. That’s because a city ordinance passed last fall by the Dick

Rep. Eliot Glassheim says he quit smoking cigarettes when the cost a pack rose by a dime decades ago. The Grand Forks Democrat says increased taxes on a pack of smokes should help people kick the habit.

Voters in three more small towns — Casselton, Cando and Walhalla — voted to ban smoking in bars Tuesday. North Dakota is the 30th state to adopt a comprehensive statewide smoke-free law. The last state to adopt such a law was Wisconsin in 2009. Bar own

A statewide smoking ban on the ballot Tuesday prohibits smokers from puffing within 20 feet of a building entrance, but an official who helped write the language of the measure said she doesn’t believe that will be strictly enforced. “I’m not sure that a

Nearly the last step was taken by the North Dakota House on Tuesday to defund BreatheND, the state's tobacco prevention and control agency created by an initiated measure in 2008. Senate Bill 2024 passed on a 63-29 vote after more than 40 minutes of deb